IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Leverage IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions to deploy new or existing workloads in the era of cloud

Historically, organizations running virtualized What is a hybrid cloud? environments on-premises have experienced many A hybrid cloud implementation is when workloads are challenges like incurring significant capital expenditures, run in both on-premises or co-located infrastructure, and expending resources, and spending a lot of time infrastructure that is hosted by a cloud provider. Hybrid maintaining and managing onsite servers. Likewise, clouds enable you to maximize the agility and flexibility in this model, licenses are generally purchased with of a public cloud environment while continuing to take large and lengthy Enterprise License Agreements advantage of existing investments. (ELAs) that are inflexible and unable to scale quickly to accommodate the ever-changing business needs. Imagine being able to manage all these resources using the same tools that you’ve been using for years. A hybrid cloud In the era of cloud what does virtualization look like and can extend VMware infrastructure to IBM Cloud enabling what is the best way for organizations to make the move you to address critical business needs. Expanding capacity while maintaining your current investments? or consolidating data centers, building a disaster recovery VMware and IBM have partnered together to offer you a environment and modernizing applications to meet key streamlined approach for migrating VMware environments security and compliance goals are just a few opportunities to the cloud. By deploying new or existing VMware that a hybrid cloud supports quickly and securely. workloads in a hybrid cloud architecture with IBM Cloud, you can achieve substantial benefits while using the same Why cloud? familiar tools, resources and capabilities you currently Cloud adoption can greatly benefit enterprises that need to employ with on-premises VMware deployments. Together, expand capacity quickly to meet demand, gain agility not VMware and IBM are empowering IT departments to offered on-premises or depreciate heritage architecture. transform static server and network infrastructure into Consider the key benefits of cloud adoption: flexibility, dynamic, virtualized resource pools. These resources can agility, cloud economics and global presence. be provisioned on demand based on evolving business and technical needs.

Key benefits of cloud adoption

Flexibility Agility Cloud economics Global presence Scale resources up or down Expand and contract capacity Transition from a capital Move workloads to the without being concerned quickly with pay-as-you- expenditure model to an geographic areas where you about over-procurement go pricing models. With operational expenditure need them running. You can or under-utilization. Public the cloud, you are freed model. Better budget by meet business requirements clouds help eliminate the from procuring your own proactively sizing your by more quickly reaching new need to purchase your own infrastructure or engaging in environments based on what locations or reducing network hardware, and they can long-term contracts. is consumed. latency. enable you to refocus IT staff on strategic pursuits.

1 VMware accounts for 81 percent of virtual machine revenue. IDC, “Worldwide Virtual Machine Software Market Shares, 2017: Virtualization Still Showing Positive Growth,” December 2018, https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vmware-idc-virtual-machine-market-shares-2017.pdf

IBM Cloud IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Page 2 Why IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions?

How do you gain strategic advantage when leveraging IBM Cloud uses a flexible and secure location for all VMware on IBM Cloud™? Whether you plan to expand workloads. With multiple deployment models, more than beyond on-premises infrastructure or depreciate heritage 100 bare metal configurations, expansive client control architecture, you can gain flexibility, agility, cloud and management, IBM provides a secure, cost-effective economics and global presence when adopting a hybrid solution from development and testing to deploying and cloud environment on IBM Cloud. running mission-critical workloads.

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is known for a hardened design based on the requirements of global enterprises, Benefits of running VMware on trusted by the most security conscious organizations and takes advantage of deep VMware expertise at global IBM Cloud scale. Nearly 2,000 organizations worldwide depend on IBM Cloud offers three key advantages: compatibility, this portfolio of flexible solutions. security and control.

Working together, IBM and VMware provide flexibility and Compatibility: Many public clouds require meets you where you are in your cloud journey. To address you to change to a different or unknown API. But IBM Cloud is compatible varying workload needs, IBM Cloud offers both client- with existing VMware environments. As a result, managed and IBM-managed solutions. you don’t have to retrain, re-architect or create incompatible environment silos. The client-managed solution, known as IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Dedicated, includes VMware vSphere Control: Some enterprise leaders believe that and VMware vCenter options in a monthly subscription moving to the cloud means losing control. But model on a single-tenant infrastructure. Both client- with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, you managed options are available on bare metal servers stay in control with full VMware access. In the enabling secure, single-tenant deployments. Additionally, familiar vCenter Server or vCloud Director pane you can retain the same root level hypervisor access as of glass, your environment has the same look with your on-premises cloud. These models improve and feel as when it is operating in your data compatibility and increase cloud agility. center. Your environment runs on an IBM’s network of secure, interconnected data centers. These same data centers put global expansion The IBM-managed solution, known as IBM Cloud for and interconnectivity at your fingertips. VMware Solutions Shared, leverages VMware vCloud Director in an hourly or monthly consumption model on Security: Many times, public clouds are a multi-tenant infrastructure. This cost-effective, self- considered less secure than on-premises service solution provides a way to start migrating virtual models, but IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions machines (VMs) to the cloud in a matter of minutes. IBM help you avoid such risk. By providing a range Cloud manages the hypervisor, so you don’t have to worry of infrastructure options, IBM Cloud fits about managing, patching or updates. This model is the security and compliance needs of your flexible and cost-effective for scalability. workloads. Additionally, IBM Cloud offers the highest-level of key-management encryption with FIPS 140-2 Level 4 and “bring your own key” (BYOK), so only the client can access their data.

IBM Cloud IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Page 3 Common use cases for hybrid cloud

IBM Cloud provides a global cloud platform with on- – Maintain control and expand choice by implementing a demand, high-performance computing power, networking multitier backup strategy with options of file, block and and storage. As a result, it can deliver the elasticity object storage for cost-effective, long-term retention. needed without forcing you to completely change your IT – Retrieve data assets in 15 minutes or less with Veeam operations. Take a look at some of the most common use on IBM Cloud, and recover data quickly to a point cases for IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions. in time with Zerto on IBM Cloud, which can deliver accelerated recovery time objective (RTO) in minutes Data center transformation and recovery point objective (RPO) in seconds. Migrating VMware workloads from an on-premises infrastructure to IBM Cloud helps expand capacity and – Reduce IT complexity by leveraging disaster recovery consolidate data center infrastructure onto an automated as a service (DRaaS) and backup as a service (BaaS) and centrally managed software-defined data center. solutions on IBM Cloud. – Leverage more than 35 global data centers varying – Create a cost-effective DR environment without losing among dedicated and shared solutions. flexibility and scalability with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared. – Capitalize on more than 15 years of IBM’s deploying and supporting VMware experience Application modernization environments. IBM and VMware can help you fast-track to Day 2 operations – Create a hybrid cloud strategy or fully managed with automation, so you can focus on modernizing VMware VMware on IBM Cloud service with help from applications using containers and access high-value services thousands of VMware technical experts. such as artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. – Protect mission-critical workloads with geofencing, – Retain root access control—similar to on-premises encryption, and multiple firewall and internet solutions—down to the hypervisor level. gateway options for cost-effective migration to and – Adopt Kubernetes without breaking governance or from the cloud. security policies while maintaining full control over the entire stack. Disaster recovery and business continuity A robust cloud disaster recovery (DR) and backup – Integrate existing VMware-based applications into strategy with multiple solution options and an expansive a hybrid cloud strategy and innovate freely between network of data center-to-data center replication containers and VMware VMs with Red Hat® OpenShift®. helps protect you in the event of planned or unplanned – Deploy VMware NSX-T to enforce networking security outages. policies across containers and VMs. – Select from various IBM and ecosystem partner – Protect workloads with IBM Cloud secure private automated solutions including IBM Spectrum® Protect network and turnkey solutions from partners such as Plus, Veeam on IBM Cloud and Zerto on IBM Cloud to F5, Fortinet and HyTrust. expand data protection and recovery options. Choose the options you need from a growing list of available – Gain value from unlimited, no-cost bandwidth for VMware solutions in the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions replication within IBM Cloud data center-to-IBM Cloud portfolio. Select a custom build, automated preconfigured data center, and monthly cloud subscription models for bundle or DR environment. VMware workloads.

IBM Cloud IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Page 4 SAP on VMware in the IBM Cloud IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions provides the flexibility How are VMware solution to deploy SAP S/4HANA your way— on a public or private bundles licensed? cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment—to meet your business requirements while maintaining control and IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is flexible security. with an array of deployment options, as well as a client-managed or IBM-managed option – Migrate SAP workloads to the cloud more quickly and to fit your workload needs. No contracts are securely. necessary, and you can scale up or down at any – Leverage VMware HCX with IBM Cloud Direct Link for time. seamless network extension with high security and low latency. The client-managed option, IBM Cloud for – Access secure, full control and flexible environment for VMware Solutions Dedicated, runs on a single- SAP. tenant environment. You can rent VMware licenses on a monthly subscription basis. – Get VMware SSDC with full (root) control combined Licenses rented from IBM are offered on a with secure single-tenant SAP-certified IaaS for SAP monthly subscription and metered by physical HANA. CPU at a highly competitive price.

The IBM-managed option, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared, runs on a multi-tenant infrastructure and VMware licenses are included in the price of the solution. This solution can be consumed in a scalable hourly model.

IBM Cloud IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Page 5 VMware options for the cloud

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Dedicated Does elasticity gain mean VMware vCenter Server on IBM Cloud – Offers automated installation of vSphere on bare sacrificing control? metal servers with attached storage options. Optional Adopting a cloud strategy should not force features include VMware NSX and additional storage you to choose between elasticity and control. capabilities. With IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, you – Is available in a two-node minimum configuration and remain in complete control without having can expand to meet changing requirements quickly. to trade the reliability and security of your existing infrastructure to get the agility your – Is a client-managed solution on a single-tenant organization needs. You can continue using infrastructure. the tools, capabilities and skill sets that you developed using vSphere on-premises—and VMware vSphere on IBM Cloud can extend those skills to IBM Cloud. – Is a customizable virtualization service that offers full flexibility and configuration control, combines VMware- Other benefits include not having to retrain compatible bare metal servers, hardware and licenses staff on new tools, and you don’t need to build to build your own IBM-hosted VMware environment. silos, or hire and train new staff to maintain and operate this cloud. Best of all, you don’t have – Build to your needs, select a specific version of vCenter to re-architect applications because IBM Cloud or a true à la carte license. for VMware Solutions is compatible with your – Is a client-managed solution on a single-tenant existing VMware environments. infrastructure.

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared VMware vCloud Director on IBM Cloud – Is a self-service solution that provides capacity flexibility and scalability, with a low startup cost. Available in an “on-demand” or “reserved” consumption model. – Deploy VMs in minutes. Start as low as 1vCPU and 1GB RAM. – Is an IBM-managed solution on a multi-tenant infrastructure.

IBM Cloud IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Page 6 What do technology partners offer?

IBM and VMware continue to expand the ecosystem of – Leverage automatic backups that create isolated technology partners that support VMware solutions. copies of your production environment for testing, troubleshooting and training. IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization — and HyTrust – Get comprehensive visibility of virtual environments to – Get ensured security of your data in the cloud. IBM help in monitoring environments and issuing alerts for has teamed up with Intel and HyTrust to design a data unseen problems. protection and compliance solution. – Create an offsite disaster recovery environment – Leverage IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization with Intel without the cost and complexity of managing an offsite Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT) to geofence infrastructure with Veeam Cloud Connect Replication data at the microchip level. in IBM Cloud. – Utilize HyTrust DataControl Workload Encryption and CloudControl Workload Policy Enforcement software to Zerto on IBM Cloud get advanced levels of encryption, data protection and – Capitalize on industry-leading DR solutions for compliance monitoring. This combination addresses virtualized environments, including VMware security needs and enables clients to prepare for GDPR environments on-premises or in the cloud. to minimize audit risk. – Gain fast replication of VMware environments with adjustable RPO and RTO options. F5 on IBM Cloud – Identify, authenticate and control user access to –Deploy the Zerto automated solution offered on applications and network resources. vCenter Server bundles. – Defend app-layer attacks, such as bot traffic, DDoS and OWASP Top 10, with dynamic threat profiling and anomaly detection.

Fortinet on IBM Cloud – Employ segmentation and persistent connection inspection between private and public clouds to mitigate threats. – Control and segment thousands of applications, users and data for improved availability, visibility and security.

Veeam on IBM Cloud – Achieve high-speed recovery of applications and data in minutes with this backup and replication solution that offers data loss avoidance for lower RPOs and RTOs. – Take advantage of verified recoverability through automated backup and replica testing.

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